
26. A Mathematician's Lament by Paul Lockhart
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Are You Forcing Cards on People?
Kids aren't going to figure out everything on their own and it's important to recognize that even when you have such a problem driven curriculum then you are deliberately forcing cards on people. Even though they may not have recognized it or giving them a tool or an insight or a way of thinking which allows them to solve it sometimes you have to do this very subtly but they wouldn't have come up with it themselves. Why does mathematics education remains stuck in the 19th century compare your own experience of learning algebra with birter and rossell's recollection I was made to learn by heart the square of the sum of two numbers is equal to the sum of their squares increased by twice their product i had
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